Re: [asa] Two questions... (bottlenecking)

Bernie, the genomic data Collins is referring to is in the Ayala paper and
others following it that I mentioned.

David W. Opderbeck
Associate Professor of Law
Seton Hall University Law School
Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Dehler, Bernie <bernie.dehler@intel.com>wrote:

> RE: Dr. Campbell asked for more info on the Francis Collins quote about
> humanity not descending from a single male and female. This is sent to all
> in case others are interested too.
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> Hi Dr. Campbell-
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> The quote is from here:
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> http://www.evidenceforchristianity.org/images/stories/review_of_evolutionary_creation.pdf
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> *Excerpt:*
> During a 10/17/06 radio interview with several staff members of the Reasons
> To Believe (RTB) ministry, Francis Collins commented on some additional
> ramifications of the HGP as they relate to the question of human origins.
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> *"Certainly, when I look at the genome of humans today, all the six or
> seven billion of us on the planet, it is not consistent with our having
> descended from a single pair of individuals. It is consistent with our
> having descended from a larger group of perhaps 10,000 or so ancestors." *
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> Dr. Dave Rogstad of RTB acknowledged that it has not been proven that
> humanity's origin can be traced back to a single gene sequence, but pressed
> Dr. Collins as to whether or not such a conclusion is excluded by the
> genetic or biological evidence.
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> Dr. Collins responded, *"I think it is, actually… There's no way you can
> get where we are today from that original set of four copies (based on two
> individuals). It really requires you to postulate that there was a larger
> group of ancestors than just two. Again, I'm not sure I want to put this
> forward as the answer I wanted, but it is the answer I see from the data."
> *
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> If you want more reference info about the quote, the author of the document
> is Jon Lang: John Lang <jlang3@indy.rr.com> .
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> Let me know if you find out anything new. I'm greatly interested in this
> topic.
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> ...Bernie
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